Fitness Journey

In the beginning I was a 206lb "flabalicious" fat guy rapidly approaching the big 3-0. So, how am I doing? Today, about seven months in, I weighed 166.6lbs. Over the holidays I went back up to 178 lbs, but now I am working on reaching my goal of 159 lbs, 7% body fat, and a Ninja Warrior ready body.

In order to better understand where you are headed it often helps to see where you have been. Throughout this fitness journey I’ve been through a lot. I went from my highest weight ever of 206lbs to my lowest weight in almost a decade of 166lbs. I’ve grown stronger, improved my endurance, pushed through obstacles, and made quite a few mistakes. Looking ahead I benefit from the knowledge that while I’ve grown a lot there is still a tremendous amount of room for improvement.

I have to begin training specifically for Ninja Warrior; I have to eat cleaner (less refined sugars and snacks); and I have to ramp up the intensity of my training sessions 100 percent!

But before we get into all that perhaps it would be helpful to see where I’ve been over the last year and a half.

I started out on February 8th, 2007 @ 206lbs and with a higher body fat percentage than I care to admit.

As disheartening as it was to see how I had let myself go, I was glad to have visual confirmation of my own failings when it came to living a healthy lifestyle. How did I get there? For me it was two things- too much soda and NO portion control. I look back and remember some meals where I had thirds on a full size 11 inch plate. (more…)

As many of you might already know, I’ve got a real tendency to procrastinate. I have to make a deliberate effort at self-discipline to keep myself on the ball. It is part a problem that my mind constantly seeks new puzzles to solve and loses interest once I figure out the solution- even if I haven’t fully implemented that solution. Some tasks, like learning a new language, bore me to tears. But these are things I must do. My to do list for this summer includes:

Learn Spanish: To develop a fluency in reading the language NOT speaking it.

Research: I would like to have a paper ready for publication by December 2008/January 2009 (more…)

Well it is that time again. Time to look through the search folder and laugh at all the poorly spelled, ill-thought, and just plain odd search terms that have led folks my way. Also, for your benefit I have laced this post throughout with GRE prep vocabulary words. Now you can learn AND laugh at the same time.

mens nuked photo

Somehow I think that the misspelling- a simple substitution of a u for an a- got this guy a whole different search result than what he intended on finding. Imagine his horror, as he typed in this term seeking out photos of naked men and he instead found photos of nuked men- perhaps Hiroshima and Nagasaki photos? That is a doozie of a difference caused by one wrong vowel. In a way it is sad. His sedulous pursuit of nude pictures of men is greeted instead with scenes of abject horror and destruction. The real tragedy, somewhere someone’s appetite for porn was not sated– the reliance on spelling skills proved a fatal flaw in the internet’s porn delivery system in this case.

how to make sex a workout

First, have sex. Second, you just worked out. If you were looking to incorporate dumbbells and such, well, other than yourself, I don’t recommend using them.

Well Kane has kept me close to his bed side for the last few days grounding my workouts and runs. However, starting tomorrow that can change. While Kane still isn’t mobile he is a bit less whiny- no doubt because his pain is lessening as his body heals. So with him able to allow me some personal time mor ethan three feet from his bed that means I have a lot of catching up to do since it is Tuesday and I have three resistance training session and at least three runs to fit into my schedule. As a result I will do some doubling up.

My schedule for the next few days includes an early morning session of stretching:

Well it is that time of week again- Tuesday. Usually a day known for only being one day better than Monday, but on longer. Funny Acronym Tuesdays have turned everyone’s second least favorite day of the week (especially now that Hell’s Kitchen has finished for the season) into the happening place to be. For those who haven’t played before, the rules are quite simple. Each person who comments defines the acronym posted by the person who commented before them and then writes an acronym of their own for the next person to explain. Feel free to make your acronyms dark, corny, odd, quirky or whatever. Just have fun!

What can you win? A write up of your blog posted on here so you get some extra traffic and some bonus Technorati points- for all of you who are interested in that thing. But there are also immediate benefits too, like a good laugh and some friendly banter. Let’s see if we can break 1,001 hits in one day (last week’s record).